Extra
Terrestrial
Terrestrial
There are this many Terrestrial Planets
What is 4?
This is the name for the gas giants – meaning “Jupiter-like”
What is Jovian?
The moon consists mostly of this part of the Earth’s geosphere.
What is Earth's mantle?
These are the icy leftovers from the formation of the solar system.
What are comets?
The fourth planet from the Sun and bright luminous objects composed of plasma that are actively converting Hydrogen into Helium.
What are Mars-Stars?
This planet has polar ice caps and extinct volcanoes.
What is Mars?
Jupiter is so massive that it has this many times the mass of all the other planets combined.
What is 2.5x?
This is the reason why the dark maria on the Moon have very few craters.
What is it is younger (covered by lava)?
Pluto is officially classified as this.
What is a dwarf planet?
This is the leftover depression caused by a meteor impact and a tyrannical ruler who is unconstrained by law.
What is a crater-dictator?
This planet has an atmosphere made mostly of CO2 and therefore is very hot.
What is Venus?
Metals, rocks, and this condensed early in the solar system thus allowing the gas giants to attract the gas nebula around it.
What are ices?
This is a mnemonic device we use to remember the Galilean moons of Jupiter.
What is I Eat Green Carrots?
These planetesimals are rocky/metallic leftovers from the formation of the Solar System.
What are asteroids?
The building blocks of planets and the "dot" in a number (1.234)
What is planetesimal - decimal?
These are 4 surface features that all terrestrial planets share.
What are cratering, volcanism, tectonics, and erosion?
The gas giants are made mostly of these two elements.
What are H and He?
This is the name of the moon of Saturn that the Cassini-Huygens space probe landed on.
What is Titan?
This cleared away the nebula once our sun became hot enough to start nuclear fusion.
What is the solar wind?
This compound gives Uranus and Neptune its blueish color and a severe tropical cyclone usually with heavy rains and winds moving at 73-136 knots.
What are methane - hurricane?
This is the reason why the terrestrial planets are small and rich in rocks and metals.
What is they formed inside the frostline?
This planet is the windiest planet.
What is Neptune?
These are the 4 Galilean moons of Jupiter.
What is : Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Calisto?
Pluto is in this region of the solar system, considered a second “asteroid belt”.
What is the Kuiper Belt?
The largest moon in the Solar System and the thing you put in the ground to grow a plant.
What is Ganymede - Seed?